Have any #phonetics and specifically vocal production and perception ppl studied the donald duck voice, bc its like a stunning example of perceptual degeneracy with acoustic variability. Those phonemes are nothing like normal speech and are produced totally differently too
I take pride in my English language fluency but I was still today's days old when it was finally explained to me that "to sew" is spelled like this (always), and the person that sews is a "sewer".
Don't be afraid of #tones | Language Log, by Victor Mair
So says Stuart Jay Raj, a Thai-based Australian polyglot who speaks several tonal languages. Linked is a half-hour video by him which is #linguistics heavy, but is actually an effort to simplify and systematize how tones work. For example, Raj makes a sharp distinction between #pitch and #tone, something that many people get all mixed up about.
Question for those who know #asl or other forms of #signlanguage, and especially those who are also familiar with #linquistics and #phonetics... presumably there are dialects in sign languages, but are there accents? Shibboleths, localized mannerisms, subtle differences in how far or vigorous motions are made, or how they're combined with other attributes of body language?
Couldn't find any map on languages using contrastive secondary articulations so I made one in R with data from Phoible (Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel, 2019; http://phoible.org)
It includes some dialects (for ex. moroccan arabic, egyptian arabic etc.) and in total 507 languages are plotted. #Phonetics#WorldLanguages#SecondaryArticulations@linguistics
I also replicated the process of training acoustic models for HK Cantonese in a streamlined MFA workflow. It is easily applicable to many other languages. Check out the MFA tutorial: 🌟 https://chenzixu.rbind.io/resources/3asr/sr4/
#Linguistics#Phonetics
A Cold War pronunciation map of southern English towns for #Polish airmen, I believe. Some real crackers in here. "Tanbrydż-Łelz" is a personal favourite. As is "Dżylynem".
Et on démarre l'année universitaire avec une nouvelle #publication!
Hutin, Mathilde & Allassonnière-Tang, Marc. 2023. L’apport des données participatives pour l’étude linguistique des français du monde: le cas de l’opposition /a~ɑ/. Journal of French Language Studies, 1-24. doi: 10.1017/S0959269523000200
Studying another #language, such as #Japanese, involves considering numerous components. These include #phonology, #morphology, #graphology, #syntax, #pragmatics, #deixis, and more. Understanding these components provides a solid foundation for mastering the fundamentals of Japanese conversation. Additionally, this awareness in...
Edited an article with the text "a HR meeting" and left the "a" intact. In Irish English the name of the letter H is aspirated: "haitch" rather than "aitch".
I keep coming back to the fact that the people in charge of Khan Academy greenlit a "personal learning tutor" called "Khanmigo."
We know it isn't Spanish, but what dialect of English pronounces the first vowel of "conmigo" anything like the vowel in "Khan"? The whole thing sounds like a con to me.
Exciting news! Our conference paper titled "Auditory reverse correlation applied to the study of place and voicing: four new phoneme-discrimination tasks" has been accepted for presentation at #ForumAcusticum2023#FA2023! This is the foundation stone for a bigger study to be published next year, and also a summary of our overall scientific aim in the team. https://hal.science/hal-04130939
This research is at the juncture between #psycholinguistics, #phonetics and #auditory perception, employing the Auditory #ReverseCorrelation (#revcorr) experimental paradigm. This approach unravels the acoustic cues employed by listeners in diverse auditory tasks, shedding light on individual perception strategies. @psycholinguistics
Japanese Phonetics
Studying another #language, such as #Japanese, involves considering numerous components. These include #phonology, #morphology, #graphology, #syntax, #pragmatics, #deixis, and more. Understanding these components provides a solid foundation for mastering the fundamentals of Japanese conversation. Additionally, this awareness in...
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